Syria, Russia, Israel And The U.S.: More Rumors Of War

The title to this latest commentary from Debka is somewhat misleading as it covers a lot more information and it is very interesting:

Damascus explosions

The shocking impact of the twin explosions which killed 55 people and injured almost 400 in Damascus Thursday, May 10, galvanized Bashar Assad’s allies, starting with Iran, into frenetic activity. Within hours, Tehran had ordered its Lebanese proxy Hizballah to open up its arms stores and run quantities of weapons and military equipment across the border to the Syrian army – a striking reversal of the routine direction of arms supplies. Thursday night, Washington quietly asked Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to put a stop to the traffic.

DEBKAfile’s sources in Moscow say the event has consequently cast a dark shadow over relations between the Obama administration and Vladimir Putin at the outset of his third term as Russian president.

The Russian president has three large bones to pick with Washington: a) He suspects American hands of stirring up opposition demonstrations against him during his election campaign; b) He is flat against the US missile shield going up in Europe and the Middle East to intercept Iran’s ballistic missiles; and c) He is solidly behind the Assad regime which he accuses the US of seeking to overthrow.

This week, Putin pointedly declined to attend the G-8 summit of world leaders meeting next week at the US presidential retreat of Camp David. He decided to send Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over in his place.

In its message to Beirut, the US reminded the Lebanese president that the transfer of war materials by Hizballah to Syria was a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which ended the 206 Lebanon war between the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group and Israel. Arms transfers between Syria and Lebanon were banned in both directions. But his prohibition was never upheld. Regular arms consignments have been crossing into Lebanon for Hizballah from and via Syria for the past six years without any interference by the United Nations force UNIFIL stationed in South Lebanon.

Another step Tehran took straight after the Damascus bombings to firm up the Assad regime was to start organizing a network of closed circuit security cameras to be installed in all parts of Damascus and its exits and entries for three functions:

1. Opponents of the regime will have less freedom of movement in the capital;2. The army and security forces can economize on manpower for securing the city. Patrols will fan out after cameras register hostile or suspicion movements.3. Syrian and allied intelligence services can keep track of UN monitors’ movements. The UN mission is regarded by Syria, Iran and Russia as “the eyes and ears of the West.”

A newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief states that should fleets of unmanned drones accidentally capture surveillance footage of Americans, the data can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon for up to 90 days.

“Collected imagery may incidentally include US persons or private property without consent,” the instruction states.

Should the drones capture data on Americans, the Air Force says that it should determine whether they are, among other things, “persons or organizations reasonably believed to be engaged or about to engage, in international terrorist or international narcotics activities.”

As we reported in February, Over 30 prominent watchdog groups have banded together to petition the FAA on the proposed increase in the use of drones in US airspace.

The groups, including The American Civil Liberties Union, The Electronic Privacy Information Center and The Bill of Rights Defense Committee, are demanding that the FAA hold a rulemaking session to consider the privacy and safety threats.

Congress recently passed legislation paving the way for what the FAA predicts will be somewhere in the region of 30,000 drones in operation in US skies by 2020.

The ACLU noted that the FAA’s legislation “would push the nation willy-nilly toward an era of aerial surveillance without any steps to protect the traditional privacy that Americans have always enjoyed and expected.”

In addition to privacy concerns, the groups warned that the ability to link facial recognition technology to surveillance drones and patch the information through to active government databases would “increase the First Amendment risks for would be political dissidents.”

8 comments:

Cary . . .I'm curious about that as well. I keep track of all the earthquakes periodically through out the day, via an RSS reader . . .and when this story was pushed to the news wires, I couldn't understand why the quake wasn't noted by USGS.

Very peculiar indeed. Is it possible USGS could tell by the waves it wasn't really a quake, but Israelis felt shaking so the story was invented to cover up an underground explosion of sorts? (keeping in mind, the government, to a large extent, is secular) . . .or is the USGS the one covering up something? Hmmmm . . .

Stephen, Being Christians and having the mind of Christ, I guess we can think like God and believe a 'soon' is like a thousand years and a thousand years is as a 'soon'.

Bottom line Stephen no one knows the day or the hour except Jesus. And trying to keep up an emotional thousand year 'soon' is good for the stretching of our faith. It's also exciting as it keeps us on the edge of our seats. As far as our Israeli brothers and sisters go its not good for them at all. Will they ever find peace? Will they ever be able to their Arab neighbors 'friends'? They will but only when our blessed Lord and Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ stands on the mount of Olives and splits it in two as He takes his rightful walk through the two massive gates that are so sadly blocked off by a grave yard( I believe).

Anon rest assured I love your nation, always have always will. You are in my prayers, you, your family and Defence Force.

Hello our Israeli friend! We are so happy you comented. You are at the epicenter if it all! Please keep us updated as to what you see and hear. Here in America, we are very far away and our media ni linger reports important things to us. Nor do they tell us rhe truth. Please know, everyday we pray for you, for Jerusalem, for Israel, for the Jews and for the Arabs too. Are you a Jew? Are you messianic? Are you Muslim? Just know we love you very much! We know war is coming. And we know it is close. It is very very serious indeed. We think this war may fullfill some prophecy. Please tell us more about yourself. We will be praying for your safety. Do you have other needs, that can oray for God to meet?God bless you!

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